Maybe Chris - until you absolutely must, need, crave it like the most divine Belgian chocolate, really have to have, the info and THEN it reverts to the Library/Encylopaedia version of Tesco's and all you can find are bloody ads and specious special offers... Although I'm certifiably mad it makes me so much madder that my brain overrides my memory and I can't even remember what I needed to find out anymore - last time was yesterday and I even forget to come on this site at all...

PS: that's just me kidding - we had a big power down here and by the time the work finished I needed to be somewhere else

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.” George Bernard Shaw

The Internet is great for so many things but it's hardly the most reliable source of accurate information. Anyone can write anything on the Internet which can be completely made up. To use the Internet for fact finding requires a good deal of filtering of good information from garbage.

Sometimes there such a thing as too much info.

“Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.” – Blaise Pascal

I don't know how true it is, but I've been told that anyone can change 'facts' on wikipedia, and the information provided cannot be taken as gospel.

You also can't instantly find anything you want - or I can't, anyway.
A few years ago I was trying to buy a DVD for a friend of mine. She wanted the Water Babies and I decided to look up the production details and then order it for her.
Have you ever tried googling 'water babies'? The sites that mr. google decided were relevant made me blush! I had to look twice to check that my eyes weren't deceiving me!!

Going to my school was an education in itself. Which is not to be confused with actually getting an education (Schultz)

That's true about Wiki though - they're notorious for it in fact. They even managed to upset lovely Auntie Valerie Singleton - they kept saying she had a thing going with Joan Armatrading so Auntie Val had to keep going in and deleting it ('cos she didn't - it was one of Joan's (male) backing musicians - apparently! ) until they promised her they wouldn't let people edit it anymore... or was that the other way around and they said she wasn't?

*loses interest and wanders off*

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.” George Bernard Shaw

Batty wrote:I don't know how true it is, but I've been told that anyone can change 'facts' on wikipedia, and the information provided cannot be taken as gospel.

You also can't instantly find anything you want - or I can't, anyway.A few years ago I was trying to buy a DVD for a friend of mine. She wanted the Water Babies and I decided to look up the production details and then order it for her.Have you ever tried googling 'water babies'? The sites that mr. google decided were relevant made me blush! I had to look twice to check that my eyes weren't deceiving me!!

Are you sure you didn't accidentally type 'water babes'?

“Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.” – Blaise Pascal

Wiki contains so much info that there are bound to be mistakes from time to time. However, I believe that as a whole, there isn't a better or more accurate site on the internet and Wiki can be usually trusted.

"It's better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong,remembering when you used to belong there" -Sneebs

poohbcarrot wrote:Wiki contains so much info that there are bound to be mistakes from time to time. However, I believe that as a whole, there isn't a better or more accurate site on the internet and Wiki can be usually trusted.

Finally! Our bad little bear believes in something!

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.” George Bernard Shaw